The heck with it all, if you hear it, that's good enough. Free 5 Band DXCC for everyone!
Or better yet, the much coveted D-Star DXCC Award. Ohhhhhhhhhhh ---- [email protected] wrote: > Jim, > > You can't have your cake and eat it. The West coast has nicer weather than > the East coast but the left coast ocean is larger... > > Maybe there should be an award based on Grid Squares. > > Mike N2MS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Brown <[email protected]> > To: 'TopBand' <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:17:35 -0000 (UTC) > Subject: Topband: DXCC Fairness > > Talk about DXCC fairness -- it's FAR easier to work DXCC with a modest > station anywhere around the Atlantic, or within 1000 km of it, than it > is from the Pacific. I've got a very nice antenna farm and have taken > the time to become a competitive contester, but I am almost never able > to work DXCC in a weekend contest, all bands combined. But guys on the > east coast consider it trivially easy. The difference is especially > striking on Topband -- there are often openings from EU to eastern NA, > whereas we might HEAR a dozen signals a YEAR out here in California. It > took me four years to work 100 countries on 160, and two years later I'm > at 125. I haven't heard EU for two years. > > 73, Jim K9YC > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
